Plenty of moviegoers abide by his church, while others would rather gouge their eyes out with a rusty fork before sitting through another of his movies. He’s the kind of love-him-or-hate-him director who makes films that are, ahem, something of an acquired taste. Let’s get it out of the way: Lars von Trier is not for everyone.
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If you think this movie is little more than a straight-faced slasher, though, then you need to give it another spin. The fact that almost 25 years later, we’re still talking about Paul Allen’s business card, the clear, crisp sound of Huey Lewis and the News, or just how tough it is to make reservations at Dorsia speaks to his staying power in the zeitgeist.Īs a pop-cultural signifier of male vanity, the finance bro-by-day, deranged serial killer-by-night slashes his way through the financial district and essentially does to Wall Street yuppies what “Jaws” did to sharks back in ’75. If Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman is not the most memorable movie villain of the 21st century, he isn’t far off. You give me a fuckin’ tuber, I’ll get you somethin’ aht of it.”) that makes this the kind of movie you have to watch until the end whenever you run into it skipping channels.
But it’s Jack Nicholson spewing profanities in a thick Bostonian accent as mob boss Frank Costello (“I’m an ahtist. An English-language update on the badass Hong Kong thriller “Infernal Affairs”, this is pretty much a Scorsese’s ‘best hits’ album with no shortage of high-wire drama, double-crossing galore, and iconic needle drops. Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio star as two moles on either side of the law in an intricate cat-and-mouse affair between the police and South Boston’s Irish Mafia. In a perfect world where Kevin Costner’s white savior Pocahontas doesn’t beat “Goodfellas” for Best Picture in 1991, “The Departed” would be remembered as a highly engrossing crime epic in its own right instead of that one odd film that finally got Scorsese over the Oscar hump.
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